Word: conn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the name Feuchtwanger literary persons associate power. Reason: Lion Feuchtwanger, German writer, wrote a tome known in the U.S. as Power; abroad, as Jud Süss. Austin J. Feuchtwanger (stocks & bonds, onetime flyer) likes power. At Stamford, Conn., last week his fondness for it was demonstrated when the Sally-Too, 32-foot speedboat, was demonstrated, did 61 miles an hour...
Drugs. Through the organization of the McKesson & Robbins Holding Co., U.S. wholesale druggists consolidated an annual sales volume of $80,000,000. Into the merger came: McKesson & Robbins Co. (N.Y., Conn.); Gibson Snow Co. (N.Y.); Bedsole-Colvin Co. (Ala.); Churchill Co. (Ill., Iowa, Neb.); Eastern Co. (Mass.); Farrand, Williams & Clark Co. (Mich.); Faxon & Gallagher Co (Mo.); Fuller Morrison Co. (Ill.); Halvan Gorder Co. (O.); Kirk, Geary & Co. (Calif.); Langley Michaels Co. (Calif.); Minneapolis Co. (Minn.); Murray Co (S.C.); Roeber & Kuebler (N.J.); Southern Co. (Tex.); Western Wholesale Co. (Calif., Ariz...
Engaged. James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, 30, retired world champion heavyweight fisticuffer; to Mary Josephine Rowland Lauder, 21, of Greenwich, Conn., granddaughter of the late George Lauder, who was first cousin of Andrew Carnegie & organizer of Carnegie Steel Corp...
Married. Leila Stuart Holt, daughter of President Hamilton Holt of Rollins College, and Maurice Rotival, son of French Railroadman Paul Rotival; at Woodstock, Conn...
Said Fred Stone, acrobatic, clean-show comedian, "I'll take it up myself now." Into his Travel-Air biplane he climbed. Ten minutes later the engine died, the plane sideslipped, crashed into the beet-field of one Max Winkler near Trumbull Field, New London, Conn. Both Stone-legs were broken; he may not dance again. In a few weeks he would have received a pilot's license...